Posts tagged "Push Notifications"

[UPDATE: InvokeEventReason.NOTIFICATIONadded for accessing the notification payload when application was not running in the background. Latest AIR build containing these changes available here]

Push/Remote Notifications support for iOS platform has been made available in latest release of AIR 3.4. This blogpost will cover everything you need to do to get remote/push notifications working in your AIR application: subscribing for remote notifications, configuring your application in the iOS Provisioning Portal, sending notifications to Apple’s Push Notification Service (APNS), and handling them in your application. Another detailed article discussing Push Notifications Support in AIR can be found at http://www.adobe.com/devnet/air/articles/ios-push-notifications.html

Overview

Remote notifications, or server push or push notifications, describe a style of Internet-based communication where the request for a given notification is initiated by the publisher or central server. It contrasts with pull technology, where the request for the transmission of information is initiated by the receiver or client (device in our case). Push technology has the advantage over pull notifications that device battery and network bandwidth are saved when no new data is available. Continue reading…